I don’t think I’ve ever iterated just how much I hate the idea and the process of “self-reviews”.

First off, the idea of a “self-review” puts the work of doing a review directly on the shoulders of the reviewee, and not the reviewer. Is it just me, or isn’t the idea of having a review supposed to include the reviewer actually giving you a review?

All they reviewer has to do is use the items you brought up and either agree or disagree with them.

Secondly, how in the hell are you supposed to fill these out? You don’t want to downplay what you’ve done through the past year, but then you don’t want to toot your own horn too loudly or make up shit like “saved the world by reducing paper clip waste” because the perception is in the eye of the beholder.

Or something like that.

Hey…I could use that in my self-review: effectively mixed metaphors with great accuracy.

Heh.

Finally – what does the self-review do other than waste the reviewees’ time? I already know what I’ve done this year! I was there! Why do I have to rate how well I did my stuff?

Also, why do a review at all when, regardless of my performance, I will get a 3% raise anyway?

Seriously. I think this was Middle Management’s way of getting out of even more work so they can have more time be anal retentive and nit-picky with how many file folders I have on my desk.

Bah!